Filler-form for embroidery.



G. REIS.

FILLER FORM FOR EMBROIDERY.

APPLICATION runn mm: 4, 1912.

1,063,734, Patented June 3, 1913.

I -M2w GUSTAV REIS, or FURTH, BAVARIA,; GERMANY I FiLLE -FQRM FOR EMBROIDERY. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 4, 1912. Serial No. 701,490.

. Patented June 3, 19 13.

To all whom it may concern. Y

Be it known that I, GUsTAv Rnrs, .a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of Ftirth, Bavaria, German Empire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Filler-Forms for Embroidery, of which the following is a specification.

,My invention relates to filler-forms for embroidery, and more able filler-forms.

The object of the invention is to provide a filler-form which will present a comparatively firm surface substantially unyieldable to the pressure of the embroidery threads during the process of embroidering so that the form will retain its shape and outline while the embroidering is being done, so as to insure smooth, even work, and which will be flexible and will not readily break or disintegrate and come through the embroidery threads when repeatedly laundried.

Heretofore, filler-forms for embroidery have been made from sheets .of compressed cellulose or disintegrated wood pulp, the

forms being cut out or stamped up from the sheets, but such forms have been found to break after being laundried; and besides this, they gradually disintegrate and come through the embroidery threads as a result of being laundried.

It is the purpose of my invention to overcome this difliculty, and the invention consists in providing a filler-form comprising united one or more layers of textile fabric and one or more layers of material which will give the form shape-retaining qualities or firmness for the purposes of embroidery, such material, for example, as compact, unwoven; fibrousmaterial, digested wood pulp or other forms of cellulose, compressed. The fabric may be any suitable textile material,

or such as has crossing interlocked threads,

and the shape-retaining constituent of the f filler-form may be any form of cellulose or its equivalent compressed into a substan- "tially firm, flexible, shape-retaining layer its way in holdin the cellulose layer'from break.-

1t further gives the filler-form thefor the purposes desired.

In the preferred form of my invention,

the textile fabric'is used as the top layer,

Since it is then more effective-in preventing the'cellulose from disintegratingand findin through the embroidery threadsan is preferable to have a layer particularly to wash- I of this specificatwn, Flgure 1 shows a fillerassist in holding the appearance of cloth, which ..s of a better color-and finish than paper in case the fillerform should show through the embroidery threads. For the better quality of fillerforms for certain classes of embroidery, it

of textile material as-the top and bottom layer of the form.

Referring to the drawings forming a part form in the shape of a capital letter; Fig. 2 shows an enlarged cross-sectional view of the forn" on line a3:c,' Fig. 3is a crosssectional view of a form having a top and bottom layer of textile fabric and an intermediate layer of cellulose; and Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a form having several alternate layers of fabric and cellulose.

The filler-form 1 comprises a top layer 2 of textile fabric, preferably white and of fine sharp threads, and a bottom layer 3 of flexible compressed cellulosic material, and it is stamped up or cut out from already prepared sheets. These sheets are preferably formed by taking a sheet of compressed wood pulp (cellulose) or other shape-retaining material, and uniting a sheet of this material to a sheetof textile fabric by a suitable binding or adhesive agent, under compression, 'and preferably between warm may be made by forming a layer'of the cellulose preferably with a binding agent mixcdtherein or placed thereon, the cellulose being in a moist state, and then uniting this layer of cellulose with the layer of textile material under compression between warm dies, theQl ayer of textile fabric in this case preferably being of relativel large mesh, the meshes being suificiently large to permit the cellulose to be forced into it to arts firmly together. Filler-forms stamped rom sheets formed in this manner, however, are not as desirable as t-he;forms ade from'separate finished sheets of textile fabric and cellulose united together. As manyof the alternate layers as desired, depending upon the thickness of the filler-form wanted.

While I have described my invention in detail with reference to a letter form, obviouslythe filler-form is equally as useful in of textile fabric and cellulose may be united any kind of embroidery such as embroideri flowers,- scallops, etc. aving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is; i y '1. A Washable filler form embodying an embroidery design adapted to be completely covered by embroidery threads and comprising a flexible form layer of unwoven fibrous or cellulosic material united-with a protecting layer of textile fabric.

2. A Washable filler form embodying an embroidery design adapted to be covered by 'the embroidery threads and comprising a comparatively stifi', flexible, transversely arched layer of unwoven fibrous or'cellulosic material and a textile fabric layer united to the convex surface of the unwoven layer.

3. A washable filler form embodying an embroidery design adapted to be completely covered by the embroidery threads and comprising a transverse arched non-Woven-layer of fibrous or cellulosic material, a relatively thin sheet of textile fabric covering the convex surface of said layer, and a binding agent uniting said layer and sheet.

In testimony-whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of tWo subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV REIS.

Witnesses:

EDWIN Snonn, SAMUEL M. Vane, Jr.

Copies of this patent'may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

